“To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.”

I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.

We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly

Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.

I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.

I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.

I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.

Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.

It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.

You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.

Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.

The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.

The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.

This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.

I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.

Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.

Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?

The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.

I don’t like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz.

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.